A group of parents in Tatarstan has urged the government of the Russian region to return mandatory Tatar-language classes to schools across the republic. In its open letter on the social network ...

KAZAN, Russia -- A teenage gunman set off an explosion and opened fire at a school in the regional capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, killing nine people as hundreds fled the smoke-filled ...

The second-largest ethnic group in the modern Russian Federation, after the Russians, are the Tatars, Turkic-speaking Sunni Muslims who are indigenous to the Volga and Ural regions, including the ...